The girls very often catch them and tie them up in little bits of gauze, and put them, as you see, on their dresses and in their hair.

To my mind they seem more beautiful far than diamonds.

Sometimes the Indians, when they travel at night, fix fire-flies to their feet, and so have good lamps to their path." While Barney was expressing his surprise at this information, in very racy language, they entered the village; and, mingling with the throng of holiday-keepers, followed the stream towards the grand square.
The church, which seemed to be a centre of attraction, and was brilliantly illuminated, was a neat wooden building with two towers.

The streets of the village were broad and straggling; and so luxuriant was the vegetation, and so lazy the nature of the inhabitants, that it seemed as if the whole place were overgrown with gigantic weeds.

Shrubs and creeping-plants grew in the neglected gardens, climbed over the palings, and straggled about the streets.